After the extra crowd returned to their houses, we were lucky enough to still have Grandma and Grandpa Slade, Merrit and Matt, and the Linders with us. Our kids opened their Christmas pajamas. Then we read The Littlest Angel (a long-standing tradition) and the Christmas story in Luke 2.
Christmas morning was all kinds of fun. Santa set up his presents in the living room for the Daniels and in the family room for the Linders. After the traditional banana (which Nathan, of course, threw a fit about eating) and the lineup, the kids were able to partake in the new treasures. And then there was much going back and forth to share in the delights of the other room. When the presents were unwrapped, we had a breakfast feast (as per Daniel Family tradition) of breakfast casserole, pancakes, sausage, hot chocolate and juice.
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I managed to remain in my pajamas at home but the Linders left for other family celebrations and Dave took the four oldest kids to Katie's house. My parents and Keri's family came later Christmas evening so the festivities seemed to go on and on. It was indeed a merry Christmas.
Unfortunately, that was the end of the good times it seemed. The next day sickness settled into our house to stay for quite a while. There was some combination of fever, coughs, headache, and puking among one or several of us for the next week. It put a damper on the post-Christmas playtime. I wish we had been able to enjoy our visiting family more. I did manage to go see Les Miserables with my family on the 27th. Dave took all the kids but Anne to my aunt Laurie's that evening. I left the house for an hour to go furniture shopping with my mom one morning as well. Other than that we stayed home and did an obscene amount of screen time and I got to snuggle Anne and Ben. A lot.
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